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looking forward to this!
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« Reply #1 on: 20:12:49, 14-07-2007 » |
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So am I, tonybob.
I've been a film buff of long standing; yes, even as far back as "Anna Karenina" (1948) and, particularly, "The Red Shoes" (1948). Brian Easdale's score will bring back many happy memories for me.
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« Reply #2 on: 20:24:35, 14-07-2007 » |
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Listening to VW's The 49th Parallel - Prelude, I was reminded of a choral version of the same tune: one in praise of the British Commonwealth. Has anyone else come across that?
And now it's confession time. I have a CD of music from the Carry On films, so I'm rather looking forward to that tonight.
And as for the Dam Busters March (I see the film was on TV today), it's a great piece with stirring tunes but I cannot help thinking of the poor victims of that raid. I know that war's a dirty business but glorifying it in that way seems inappropriate.
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« Reply #3 on: 22:05:58, 14-07-2007 » |
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It's all gone a bit downhill for me since the hilariously stunning harmonica playing earlier. Overrunning a bit too, isn't it?! [ed]I think Rob almost slipped up just now - something like "the Dam Basters". Hmm. Should be a d in there somewhere.  |
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« Reply #4 on: 22:50:20, 14-07-2007 » |
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bit long...
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« Reply #5 on: 23:40:19, 14-07-2007 » |
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Hey, I heard most of the prom and it was just like one of Radio 2's Friday Night Music Night programes. Well done John Wilson. And Richard E Grant for his goofs, at least two I heard Matthew Arnold and he missed a paragraph later and had to start again There were some pieces played tonight that I've never heard, so when is this prom on BBC 2 TV? Am I thick or does it not say anywhere on the proms pages or in the BBCMM booklet? Also today's afternoon matinee prom was not listed in the BBCMM booklet which I was relying on for accuracy this weekend, and not referring to other schedules as I had a few hours computer work to do........  |
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« Reply #6 on: 23:54:59, 14-07-2007 » |
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For me the concert this Saturday evening was one of the lowest points in my Proms listening career. Dreadful playing and limp, directionless conducting, feeble sound, incomprehensible programming, and naffest music. Worse, it was downright patronising: the kind of 'get the youf in' stuff. Well, if you are going to do that - and there is certainly a place for it - then you make sure that you do it with huge style and panache, and a BIG orchestra with a BIG sound. Instead we had tired, amateur sub-Radio 2 flimsy.  |
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« Reply #7 on: 23:58:20, 14-07-2007 » |
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DracoM, Well I'm a regular FNIMN listener and tonight's programme was fine for me, far from limp and directionless, but what do I know  |
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« Reply #8 on: 00:41:19, 15-07-2007 » |
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Also today's afternoon matinee prom was not listed in the BBCMM booklet which I was relying on for accuracy this weekend, and not referring to other schedules as I had a few hours computer work to do........ Though it was listed in the "Then and and Now" thread, John.... |
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« Reply #9 on: 10:59:21, 15-07-2007 » |
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Also today's afternoon matinee prom was not listed in the BBCMM booklet which I was relying on for accuracy this weekend, and not referring to other schedules as I had a few hours computer work to do........ John The Saturday proms are in the BBCMM booklet but in their own section together with the Monday chamber proms, starting page 42. Maybe not the simplest way to follow what's on when. I seem to remember Charles Hazlewood saying at the end of Friday's tv broadcast that the film music prom would be televised on BBC2 on July 28th. Makes a certain amount of sense since that is "Brass Day" which isn't being transmitted on tv. |
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« Reply #11 on: 16:44:01, 15-07-2007 » |
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Thank you all for help here, then TV promsbroadcast link is just what I need and I'll pencil in the dates in the booklet..... actually I'll use mini-post-its and not ruin the nice booklet  |
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« Reply #12 on: 22:43:39, 15-07-2007 » |
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And as for the Dam Busters March (I see the film was on TV today), it's a great piece with stirring tunes but I cannot help thinking of the poor victims of that raid. I know that war's a dirty business but glorifying it in that way seems inappropriate.
Somewhere in my long-lost pile of clippings I have a picture of Wing.Co. Gibson and his crew minutes after returning from that raid. And while they were presented as great heroes, the sheer terror is still clear in their eyes. They were only young men, barely boys, and AFAIK none of them survived the war. |
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« Reply #13 on: 11:51:26, 17-07-2007 » |
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..now that ,as with Stanley's similarly eloquent post about Brief Encounter, should have been in Grant's script. Yet another example of the luminaries of this board coming up with pure gold.
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« Reply #14 on: 12:22:06, 18-07-2007 » |
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I listened to a repeat of this in the car yesterday. Did anyone else notice Rob Cowan referring to the 'damnblasters' march just after it had ended? In fact, I at first took it as 'damn bar stewards'. |
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